REVIEW: Despite Cristero War Setting, For Greater Glory Could Use a Better Story
Although he converted to marry his devoutly Catholic wife in 1926, Graham Greene was famously called to the faith during his time…
REVIEW: Eva Mendes Brings Warmth — and the Hotcha-Cha Factor — to Girl in Progress…
Teenage Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez) is lacking in role models. Her father's unknown, her best friend (Raini Rodriguez) is faithful…
REVIEW: Kathleen Turner's a Kick — Up to a Point — in The Perfect Family
Casting Kathleen Turner as a small-town mom nominated for "Catholic Woman of the Year" is about as risky as it gets in The…
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The latest feature to emerge from Britain's Aardman Productions workshop, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, succeeds in spite of a…
REVIEW: Disney Doc Chimpanzee Is Shamelessly Adorable Simian Sensationalism
Chimpanzees are the putative subject of Chimpanzee, another in a line of Disney documentaries with big, blunt titles (Oceans…
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The 10 years that we are told at the beginning of Wrath of the Titans have passed since Perseus (Sam Worthington) defeated the…
REVIEW: Not-So-Spooky Intruders Preys On, and Over-Psychoanalyzes, Childhood Fears
A movie about childhood nightmares that plays too much like an actual, incoherent nightmare to make a good movie, Intruders is a…
REVIEW: Stephen Dorff Almost Gets a Break in Brake
If Stephen Dorff's career never soared as high as he might have liked, the fact that it's getting more interesting all the time…
REVIEW: Madre de Dios! Will Ferrell and Co. Make Casa de Mi Padre One Long, Perfunctory Inside Joke
For a movie with a comedic premise this simple – essentially: can you believe we made a movie with a premise this simple? – Casa…
REVIEW: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt Do Their Best With Uneven Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Although it's set in the present, the characters in Lasse Hallström's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen seem to have been imported from…
REVIEW: Project X, a Todd Phillips Production™, Made for Those Who Find the Hangover Franchise Too…
I'm pretty sure I ruined the night of a pair teenage boys huddled in the back row of a recent screening of Project X, a party…
REVIEW: Appalling Act of Valor is Having a War, And Everybody's Invited
Well, it finally happened. The line separating America from America: The Movie found a way to arrange itself into a stick figure…
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Wispy but sweet as spun sugar, The Secret World of Arrietty feels like a modest but exquisitely trimmed Japanese gift to fans of…
REVIEW: In Darkness Takes the Holocaust Underground — to Dull, Didactic Effect
Based on a true story out of World War II-era Lvov, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), In Darkness seeks to distinguish itself from the…
REVIEW: Found-Footage Sci-Fi Tale Chronicle Is Uneven But Earnest, and Often Exhilarating
The allegory-rich Chronicle opens with a kind of generational statement: "I bought a camera," senior class punching bag Andrew…
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